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Nave Topical Bible
• Bad Company
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Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Sermons: Bad Not to Be Listened to
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• Badness
• Bad
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Bad
Webster Dictionary
• Badness
• Bad Lands
• Bad
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Bad
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Bad`en, the Grand-Duchy of
• Bad`enoch
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Berry's NT Synonyms
• Bad, Evil
• κακός
• πονηρός
• σαπρός
•   (only first 3 shown)
• בִּאישׁ
• דִּבָּה
• רַע , רַע
•   (only first 3 shown)

BAD, a.Heb. to perish or destroy

1. Ill evil opposed to good a word of general use, denoting physical defects and moral faults, in men and things as a bad man, a bad heart, a bad design, bad air, bad water, bad books.

2. Vicious corrupt depraved, in a moral sense as a bad life a bad action.

3. Unwholesome as bad provisions.

4. Unfortunate unprosperous as a bad state of affairs.

5. Unskillful as a bad player.

6. Small poor as a bad crop.

7. Infirm as a bad state of health.

8. Feeble, corrupt, or oppressive as a bad government.

9. Hurtful pernicious as, fine print is bad for the eyes.

10. Unfavorable as a bad season.

11. Poor sterile as a bad soil.

12. Rough or muddy as a bad road. In short, bad expresses whatever is injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, unlawful or immoral whatever is offensive, painful or unfavorable or what is defective.